Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-12
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

r. WASHINGTON NOTES.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Pension
Office shows that during April there were
II, 800 pension certificates issued, classified
as follows: Original pensions, 5,543; in
crease pensions, 5,347; Mexican war pen
sions, 500. This Is said to be the largest
number issued in any one month in the his
tory of the bureau.
THE Comptroller of Currency has desig
mated Chicago as a central reserve city un
der the provisions of the act passed at the
last session OF Congress.
THE decrease of the public debt during
April amounted to S13, 053, 09S.
THE coinage of the mints during the
month of April aggregated $5,O43, S95, OF
which So, OOO, 600 was in standard silver dol
lars.
THE President on the 4th appointed Will
liam II. McLyman collector of customs for
the district of Miami, o.; j. w. Doane, of
Chicago, w. Karl Carlisle, of Wichita,
Kan, and Isaac j. Cox, of Ellenviile, N Y,
commissioners to examine and report upon
thirty-four miles Of the Northern Pacific
railroad
NEW civil service rules to govern promo
tions by examination have been submitted
to the President for his approval.
THE Secretary of State is officially in
formed of the establishment of a blockade
by Italy on the coast of Abyssinia from
Amphyllia to point opposite the island
of Dufuein, and that the prize court will
eventually sit at Messina-
Mr.. GEORGE BANCROFT gave banquet in
honor of President and Mrs. Cleveland at
Washington on the 9th.
THE EAST.
THE Pittsburgh glass mixers and teasers,
who struck two weeks ago for increased
wages, returned to work at the old terms.
FULLY half the coke workers of the Con-
nellsville (Pa.) region quit work on the I'd
and the others were expected to follow suit
unless the operators gave them an increase
in wages.
THE representatives of the Marquis de
Mores, in New York, deny the truth of the
report that boycott had been placed upon
the Marquis meat supply establishment by
the Knights of Labor.
THE Maiden Creek Iron Company of Read
ing, Pa, has failed with SCI, 600 assets and
S65, 900 liabilities.
THE main steampipes on the tow boat j.
G. Fisher exploded at Pittsburgh, Pa, re-
Gently. A deck hand named Harris, who
was standing in the cabin, just over the
boiler room, was blown through the cabin
roof and instantly killed. Engineer James
Campbell and the fireman were terribly
scalded.
ONE polygarnist, four burglars and COM
Mass, the other night by overpowering the
guard.
THE sixth attempt in six months was
made ON the Sd to buI the office of the New
York Zeitung. The incendiary was not dis
covered.
The Republican Senators in caucus at
Albany, N. Y, on the Sd decided to reject
she Governors nominees for Railroad Com
Taissioners. Considerable bad blood has
been engendered in the matter between the
Governor and the Senate.
Two men named Brown and O'Hara, who
were sitting on the Baltimore & Ohio
track, near Snowdon station, Pa, were
struck by shifting engine the other night
and instantly killed. The bodies Of both
were horribly mangled.
REV. CHARLES w. WARD, the Englewood,
n. j., rector, recently accused of attempt
ing to murder his wife, was found dead at
The home of Judge Drew, his counsel, at
Mockland Lake, on the 4th. 1t was sup
posed that he had taken an overdose of
choral.
DR. JOHN NJ. MARSH, professor of materia
Tnedica and botany in the Philadelphia, Pa,
College of Pharmacy, has been elected an
honorary and corresponding member of the
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
AT the meeting of the general passenger
ggents of the trunk lines at New York re-
Gently commissions were discussed and the
of ticket agents commission was q sue
cess.
Two freight trans on the Pennsylvania
railroad collided at Plainsboro. N. j., the
o-her morning. Harry Donohue and Harry
CARRIER, tramps, who were stealing a ride,
were seriously injured, Howard Turning, a
nagman, was badly wounded about the
head, and Harry Boggs, the engineer of one
OF the locomotives, and Albert Rees, the
fireman, Were badly hurt about the limbs
Beth locomotives and several cars were
badly wrecked.
RUSSELL SAGE, the New York broker, is
quite confident about the future of West
EN- Union. He says though the dividend
may be deferred it will come at last to
those whe wait. In the mean time the COM
pany is recovering from its somewhat I'M
certain financial condition.
THREE attendants at the Buffalo, N. Y,
Insane asylum have been indicted for the
murder of an inmate.
THE WEST.
A SPECIAL gives the particulars OF the
instant death of Alfred Arnold by light
ming at Maryville, Mich, and the probably
fatal injury of Lena Schlimmer and the de-
molishing of a hotel at Whitmore lake by
the same agency.
A RECENT special from Kankakee Ill, SAYS:
A fire originating in Schedler's tin shop
destroyed Bachant's warehouse, the Pres
byterian and Lutheran Churches and ten
dwellings. Olmstead's warehouse was
partly burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance
$4,000
ALL the coopers of Milwaukee, number
ing 500, struck recently for an increase Of
five cents a barrel, and 100 stone cutters
struck against a reduction of fifty cents a
day.
EVERY restaurant in Chicago but one
granted its walters ten per cent. advance
in wages and consequently there was no